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Re: Data Ontap 5.3 and snapshots
by Joan Pearson 16 Jun '99

16 Jun '99

As another has mentioned, from the Windows client start a Find in the root directory. All directories will be converted to unicode format as they are traversed. By default, new directories created from CIFS are in unicode format. If you want to ensure all directories created from NFS are also in Unicode format, set the wafl.create_ucode option to True. You may be able to access your unconverted snapshot directories from NFS. Joan Pearson At 06:18 AM 6/16/99 , you wrote: >I have noticed in snapshots taken since I upgraded to 5.3, I am receiving >"access is denied" on various directories in the snapshots. > >This is due to the directories not being converted to Unicode as they have >not been accessed since the upgrade. I understand with 5.3, until a CIFS >directory is accessed it is not converted to Unicode. The problem I have >hear is I had some corrupted files last week in one of my directories on my >filer. When I went back to recover from any of the previous snapshots taken >since the 5.3 upgrade, I received "Access is denied" since those directories >where never touched since the 5.3 upgrade and therefore never converted to >Unicode. > >Has anyone fond a quick way to touch all CIFS shares and directories on the >filer to convert the directories immediately to Unicode so all snapshots >thereafter are clean? > Thank you, > Mike >

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RE: Virus
by Muhlestein, Mark 16 Jun '99

16 Jun '99

If by "autoprotect data" you mean run a server-based scan, that is correct, the filer does not have a built-in virus scanner. However, there are good reasons why you don't want to do that. One obvious reason is that the filer would be slowed down because every file access requires the virus scanner to get involved, which penalizes all users. It is much better to do the scanning on the clients since that has the correct scaling properties. You should have virus scanning software loaded on all your clients, but you should also have one or more clients run periodic on-demand scans of the filer data. There are several advantages to running the scans from standard PC clients, not least of which is the rapid availability of updated versions to catch the latest viruses. Another advantage is that with multiple PC clients you can parallelize the scans, which can be a great timesaver if you have a large amount of data to scan. You should also make sure your NT administrator understands the advantages of snapshots, which can be used to very good effect when a new virus is found for which there is no anti-virus software yet. And, of course, the filer is not directly susceptible to viruses because it does not run general applications. Overall, I'd say the filer has a very good anti-virus story compared to NT server. Mark -----Original Message----- From: Mark D Fowle [mailto:Fowle_Mark_D@CAT.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 7:03 AM To: toasters Subject: Virus Our NT Administrator wants to know how to protect the NetApps from viruses. Unlike running on an NT server he says he can't autoprotect data. Does anyone know how this might be done? Mark Fowle Caterpillar-BCP

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Virus
by Mark D Fowle 16 Jun '99

16 Jun '99

Our NT Administrator wants to know how to protect the NetApps from viruses. Unlike running on an NT server he says he can't autoprotect data. Does anyone know how this might be done? Mark Fowle Caterpillar-BCP

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Data Ontap 5.3 and snapshots
by Mike Ball 16 Jun '99

16 Jun '99

I have noticed in snapshots taken since I upgraded to 5.3, I am receiving "access is denied" on various directories in the snapshots. This is due to the directories not being converted to Unicode as they have not been accessed since the upgrade. I understand with 5.3, until a CIFS directory is accessed it is not converted to Unicode. The problem I have hear is I had some corrupted files last week in one of my directories on my filer. When I went back to recover from any of the previous snapshots taken since the 5.3 upgrade, I received "Access is denied" since those directories where never touched since the 5.3 upgrade and therefore never converted to Unicode. Has anyone fond a quick way to touch all CIFS shares and directories on the filer to convert the directories immediately to Unicode so all snapshots thereafter are clean? Thank you, Mike

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RE: the virus
by Sam Schorr 15 Jun '99

15 Jun '99

Is this the same logic that says its okay to rape based on how women dress? -----Original Message----- From: tkaczma(a)gryf.net [mailto:tkaczma@gryf.net] Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 12:26 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Re: the virus On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Douglas Ritschel wrote: > I think it should be a capital offense. But not to the virus writers, but the people that ignorantly open them. I think that Microsoft at al. should be held accountable for the ease with which the worm takes advantage of those systems. Tom

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Re: Converting F230 SCSI drives to F740
by sirbruce＠ix.netcom.com 15 Jun '99

15 Jun '99

On 06/15/99 11:18:54 you wrote: >If there is a problem with the boot image on disk, Intel when you really need >Alpha would be considered a problem, you can boot from floppy and run the >`download' command to refresh the boot image. Right. Although for the move, it doesn't sound like he'll need to do this; if he can set the alpha to use vol1 and make it the root volume and move the other disks over as vol0 (can you do that without the filer wanting to rename things?) then he can just type "download" on the running filer after the move and refresh the vol0 disks with the alpha image. Bruce

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Re: the virus
by sirbruce＠ix.netcom.com 15 Jun '99

15 Jun '99

On 06/14/99 10:45:48 you wrote: > >In theory, The worm/trojan he wrote could have deleted the research for >the drug that would one day save his life... Unfortunately Netapp probably sold them a filer so snapshots allowed them to recover the data. :) Bruce

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Re: the virus
by sirbruce＠ix.netcom.com 15 Jun '99

15 Jun '99

On 06/14/99 14:26:05 you wrote: >On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Douglas Ritschel wrote: > >> I think it should be a capital offense. > >But not to the virus writers, but the people that ignorantly open them. I >think that Microsoft at al. should be held accountable for the ease with >which the worm takes advantage of those systems. I can't resist this opportunity to take a jab at Microsoft by noting that I think the people who ignorantly use Microsoft mail clients that allow them to be taken advantage of are partly accountable too. :) Bruce PS - No, I'm not really defending the virus writers. And oddly enough I didn't get hit, despite being on several lists.

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Re: AFS/DFS??!! :-) (and FTP!)
by sirbruce＠ix.netcom.com 15 Jun '99

15 Jun '99

On 06/14/99 14:35:34 you wrote: > >> Are the binaries modular, i.e. only licensed modules are installed into >> memory? > >No - ONTAP is a single image with all modules linked into it. > > Right... my point was that it's still a very small code image compared to the 128MB+ your filer is going to have, even if the image is (allegedly) ten times larger than it used to be. I suppose certain features like CIFS will use more memory to allocate certain data structures for buffers and the like, but I was under the impression that if you weren't using it, this memory wasn't going to be allocated. (Ditto anything extra a particular network card like ATM may need to allocate to operate.) Bruce

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Converting F230 SCSI drives to F740
by Mike Ball 15 Jun '99

15 Jun '99

We have a F230 with about 100GB of data. We have just purchased a F740 with a shelf of 18GB Fibre drives and two empty dual SCSI shelves. We have 9GB SCSI drives on the F230 which can be moved to the F740 Dual SCSI shelves. My question is since we are running a Data Ontap 4.3.3 on the F230, I will be upgrading it to 5.2.2 before I physically move the SCSI drives over to the F740 system. Since the source code for the Data Ontap on the F230 is Intel based versus Alpha based on the F740 am I going to run into issues. As it stands right now, I am planning on having my root volume to boot off of on the Fibre drives. Since the volume on the F230 is already named vol0 I am renaming the root volume on the F740 Fibre drives to vol1. Once this has been completed, it looks like I can simply power down both the F230 and the F740, move the disks from the F230 SCSI shelves to the F740 SCSI shelves. Power up the Fibre and SCSI shelves on the F740, and be on my way. The F740 will boot off the root volume on the Fibre drives and I should be able to see both volumes once the system has completed the boot process. Once both volumes are confirmed to be online and functioning , I would then make vol0 (volume on SCSI disks) the root volume and reboot the system. Does everything here sound correct and if so how will the Intel Data Ontap code on the SCSI drives from the F230 be converted to Alpha code?

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